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The African Report on Child Wellbeing: Towards greater accountability to Africa’s children

The report aims to promote accountability to children and compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. The report takes stock of what governments have been doing for children over the last five years or so, and undertakes a systematic analysis of governments’ performances in realizing the rights and wellbeing of children over time and relative to one another. This report calls for: 1) Strengthening systems and capacities to enhance accountability to children; 2) Further improving the survival of children and their access to basic needs and services; 3) Increasing budgetary allocations to programs benefiting children, and enhancing commitment to address growing inequality; 4) Providing full legal protection for children and strengthening enforcement; 5) Putting in place mechanisms to ensure children’s participation in decisions that affect them.

Author(s): 
The African Child Policy Forum (ACPF)
Year of Publication: 
2013
Workforce themes: 
Resource Type: 
Gray literature
Language: 
English
Section: 
Resource Database